Running the Amazon
 

Running the Amazon (Vintage Departures)

by Joe Kane

In 1985 a team of hand-picked adventurers, including writer Joe Kane, embarked on a journey that would take them to the remote headwaters of the Amazon Basin. But that was just the beginning of the trip. Their goal: to navigate the world's longest river from source to mouth, a feat never before recorded.
After reaching (via a goat trail) a glacial trickle above 17,000... (read more)

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Member Reviews

  • Elizabeth P
    • Rated 4 stars

    I have to live out other people's travel adventures since I can't have my own. really liked this book.

    Elizabeth P wrote this review Thursday, June 26 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Linseed
    • Rated 5 stars

    Loved this book! Very interesting. Difficult to put down.

    Linseed wrote this review Tuesday, December 4 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Zmrzlina
    • Rated 5 stars

    This is one of the first travel narratives I ever read and I have no idea what it was that attracted me to the book. I have no desire to go screaming down a raging river in a thin boat, nor do I have a particular interest in this part of the world (well, no more than I have in any part of the world which is to say I would love to visit most anywhere, but there are some places I want to visit lots more). Anyway...I am glad for whatever it was that drew me to this book more than 15 years ago, because it is first a great read and second opened a whole new genre

    Zmrzlina wrote this review Saturday, September 29 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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